Design
+Brand, interfaces and rapid prototyping — where ideas take shape.
Shape & build fast
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Lab open · taking 2 new builds this month
Founder-led AI lab · The think-tank you can book
Bring us the mess. We’ll build the machine.
You bring the awkward process or the half-formed idea — we design the custom AI tool, agent or app that fixes it. Plus a few optimisations you hadn’t thought to ask for.
Irish based
Founder-led
Nimble by design
Live & breathe AI
Press / or ⌘K for the command console
Repeat admin detected
Follow-up drag
Workflow friction
Business Anomaly Scanner
Tell the machine what’s quietly eating your week.
Tell us the awkward problem. The machine gives the first read. Human judgment shapes the build.
Go on. Give us the awkward one.
First Read Diagnosis
Your humans are doing robot work.
High-friction, low-cognition tasks are stealing capacity from the work that actually moves the needle.
Friction Meter
LowSevere
Likely Machine
AI workflow assistant
Human Effort Lost
18–24 hrs / week
Business Impact
High
Optimisation Insight
Standardise intake, auto-route, and generate first drafts. Reclaim 2–3 days a month and quietly kill the rework.
Try a quick scan
Your input stays private. We scan, not store.
From scan to build
From a vague problem to a priced build path.
Three steps. That’s the whole journey. Tell us what’s going on, we review it — human and AI — and a clear quote comes back. No forms-maze, no sales call.
1
Tell us about your business & needs
a few minutes, no forms-maze
2
We review it — human and AI
AI drafts, a human signs off
3
You get a quick quote back
clear scope, clear price
The Full-Stack House
One wall. The whole stack.
Code, intelligence, voice, image, video, design and commerce — built in one place, by one amplified operator, at a speed a team can’t match. Most agencies outsource half of this. We don’t.
Build
+Web apps, PWAs, portals, APIs and full-stack custom systems.
The engineering stack
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsSupabasePostgresCloudflareDocker
Intelligence
+AI agents, RAG, automation, document intelligence and workflows.
Models & orchestration
OpenAIClaudeGeminiDeepSeekMistraln8nMake
Voice & Avatars
+ElevenLabs TTS, conversational agents, photographic AI avatars.
Speak & appear
ElevenLabsDeepgramWhisperHumeSimliHeyGenTavus
Image & Video
+Generative image, AI video production and creative pipelines.
Generative media
Nano BananaIdeogramMidjourneyFluxVeoKlingRunway
Payments
+Quotes, payment flows, automations and invoice generation.
Money in motion
StripePayPalRevolutWiseGoCardlessApple PayGoogle Pay
Claude Code
Cline
Codex
Gemini
ElevenLabs
Custom orchestration stacks
Self-hosted models
Server / VPS management
“I don’t pick one AI and stick. I run the whole toolchain — and pick the right blade per job.”
Machines We Build
Not one AI product. The right shape for the problem.
Four machine families. We pick the right one — or invent a stranger one — for what’s actually in front of you. Run the scanner and the matching machine lights up.
01Workflow Machines
Connect tools, remove repeat work, route decisions — humans stay in control.
02Document Intelligence
Read, classify and act on invoices, forms, receipts, contracts and messy files.
03Custom AI Agents
Enquiry handlers, staff assistants, research and follow-up agents that do real work.
04AI Web Apps & Portals
Customer interfaces, internal tools, dashboards, PWAs and clever little systems.
Built For Your World
Built for your world. Even if it doesn’t exist yet.
AI systems that adapt to your industry, your workflows, and your customers.
Health & Pharmacy
Automate patient support, compliance, and operations.
→Professional Services
Enhance delivery, reporting, and client experiences.
→Trades & Construction
Streamline quoting, scheduling, and site comms.
→E-commerce & Retail
Personalize shopping, automate support, and drive growth.
→Property & Real Estate
Qualify leads, automate follow-ups, and close faster.
→Education & Coaching
Deliver smarter learning and save time on admin.
→Finance & Insurance
Automate analysis, compliance, and client communications.
→Nonprofits & Associations
Do more good with less—automate work, not your mission.
→Selected Work
Out of the lab, into the wild.
Real platforms we’ve designed and shipped — now live in the world. Click any card to open the full page, then jump to the live site.
AI Platforms
Web Apps
Mobile
Voice & Avatars
Trading
Our Core Advantage
Build an AI Harness for your business.
Your AI. Your data. Your rules. Connected. Orchestrated. Unstoppable.
Private & secure
Bespoke by design
Orchestrated intelligence
Measurable impact
Your AI, Data, Rules.
Connected.
Orchestrated.
Unstoppable.
We design and build your private AI operating layer — a bespoke harness of agents, knowledge, tools and automations that run your business, your way.
Private & Secure
Your data never leaves your environment.
Bespoke by Design
Purpose-built agents, workflows and integrations for how you actually work.
Orchestrated Intelligence
Multi-agent systems that collaborate, escalate, and get real work done.
Measurable Impact
Automate more. Reduce friction. Increase output. See the difference where it counts.
Not a tool. Not a chatbot. A living operating system for your business.
Deploy Your Harness
You host it. We build it.
We deliver a complete, turnkey AI harness — ready to deploy in your environment or with your chosen hosting partner.
Built for you. Owned by you. Powered by Strange Materials.
Business Scan
An AI assessment of where your week leaks, plus 3–5 opportunities worth building. The front door to everything.
Free to start
AI Build Sprint
One useful machine, fixed scope, shipped fast. The workhorse for a clear, contained problem.
Fixed scope · ~2 weeks
Strange System Prototype
Test a weird idea, fast. A working prototype to prove — or kill — the concept before you commit.
Fixed-price spike
Automation Retrofit
Scoped on your scan
Voice / Avatar Build
Scoped on your scan
Creative AI Pipeline
Scoped on your scan
AI Operator Support
Monthly
Bring Us Something Weird
Let’s talk
AI Think Tank · Founder-Led · Human Judgment
The operator behind the machine.
Founder-led consulting and build partner. We work directly with ambitious teams to untangle messy problems, think past the brief, and design useful AI systems that create measurable business value.
Founder-led from day one
You work directly with the person who scopes it, designs it, and stands behind it.
Real human judgment
We bring domain expertise, critical thinking, and oversight to every decision.
We take it further
You get the build you asked for — plus the optimisations you didn’t originally consider.
Nimble is the point
Small, fast, and accountable. No layers between you and the work. We say what we can do — and don’t over-promise.
The AI think-tank
We live in this daily, so you get ideas and angles a generalist agency simply won’t reach.
When the problem is strange,
don’t call a normal agency.
don’t call a normal agency.